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Overcome prejudice and build a better world

Prejudices of all kinds must be forgotten. This principle of the Baha’i Faith would serve us all very well.
What are advantages of prayer?

Lama Chuck Stanford, Rime Center & Monastery, Kansas City, Mo.: Buddhism is a nontheistic religion; therefore prayers are not directed to a supreme being. Yet, all of us have wishes or aspirations that are often manifested through prayers.
Cuban church official tells Ladies in White they are now political group

MIAMI — A Cuban Catholic Church official told the Ladies in White on Friday they are no longer a humanitarian group and that the government is unlikely to let them go to the Vatican even if Pope Benedict XVI grants them an audience, spokeswoman Berta Soler said.
Vatican says it has caught person who leaked documents

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican said Friday that its police is holding a suspect in connection with the "illegal" possession of classified documents.
N.C. county backs down, allows protest of anti-gay sermon

MAIDEN, N.C. — Catawba County, N.C., officials have backed down after initially denying a request from marchers who want to use county facilities this weekend to stage a protest against a preacher's anti-gay sermon.
Franciscan clergy sex abuse case records released

LOS ANGELES — Thousands of pages of previously confidential records related to Franciscan clergymen accused of child sexual abuse have been posted online, three years after a Los Angeles judge ordered the documents released.
Religion news in brief

All 6 Boston groups lose appeal to Vatican to reopen church buildings at closed parishes
Voices of Faith: What are the advantages of prayer?

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Religion and politics, but no fireworks

Unless you want a fight to break out at a cocktail party or a family reunion, conventional wisdom has it, don't talk religion or politics.
North Carolina pastor's anti-gay sermon spurs protest

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A North Carolina pastor's sermon in which he called for gays and lesbians to be placed in a form of concentration camp has spurred a protest planned at the church this Sunday.